Understanding API Attacks: Why Are They Different and How to Prevent API Attacks
Salt has just released a new resource for business and security leaders: “Understanding API Attacks: Why Are They Different and How Can You Stop Them.” Salt undertook writing this eBook as part of our ongoing commitment to educate the market about API security issues and trends. In this new eBook, ... Read More
State of API Security: Financial Services and Insurance
API security is a pressing concern for industries undergoing digital transformation, and none more so than financial services and insurance. To shed light on their unique challenges, Salt undertook and today released its first industry-specific report on API security: the 2023 “State of API Security for Financial Services and Insurance.” ... Read More
Australian Energy Leader Picks Salt for API Security!
We’ve taken our award-winning API security “Down Under” with our latest customer success! Today we announced that Jemena, a leading energy company in Australia, has selected the Salt Security API Protection Platform to protect its critical gas and electricity infrastructure. Here at Salt, we are honored that Jemena has chosen ... Read More
Better Together: Stopping API Attacks with Salt and AWS WAF
APIs power today’s digital economy and enable organizations to succeed in their business innovation efforts. Because every company’s APIs are unique, so are its security gaps, which bad actors will inevitably try to exploit. Only through rich context and deep behavioral analysis can these attackers be stopped.Many of the APIs ... Read More
Salt Unveils Enhancements to AI Algorithms for API Security
We’re pleased to share that Salt has extended the capabilities of our powerful AI algorithms, further strengthening the threat detection and API discovery abilities of the Salt Security API Protection Platform. (Check out today’s announcement.) Here at Salt, we always look forward to the RSA Conference, but this year we ... Read More
Get Smart(er) about the business value of API security
API attacks have dominated the cybersecurity news cycle lately. In early 2023, T-Mobile made news for an API-based breach of 37 million PII records of its past and present customers. And last year, Optus, a major telecommunications company in Australia, experienced an API security incident that exposed around 10 million ... Read More
Seven Takeaways from Gartner® 2022 Innovation Insight for API Protection
Organizations are overwhelmingly embracing APIs as they strive to meet customer needs in new and innovative ways. Attackers are also targeting these APIs at alarming rates. The recent Salt Security State of API Security report highlighted that a resounding 94% of survey respondents had experienced API security problems in production ... Read More
Leveraging Google Cloud Packet Traffic Mirroring with Salt to Detect API Security Threats
Hundreds of millions of application programming interfaces (APIs) power today’s digital economy, and that figure continues to expand at a relentless pace. While development teams deploy tools to help them conquer the complexity of managing their API inventory and increase their velocity, the resulting sprawl has created far greater concerns ... Read More
What are API Attacks, Why They’re Different, and How to Stop Them
API attacks have been all over the news lately. Just a few weeks ago, a major telecommunications company in Australia experienced an API security incident, exposing around 10 million customer records. In March, a Hubspot API breach exposed the sensitive data of 1.6 million users. And who can forget the ... Read More
API Gateway Security: What is it and is it Enough?
APIs drive today’s economy, helping organizations bring data together in new ways to provide the services that consumers expect. Therefore, it’s no surprise that a recent study found that businesses that utilize APIs were more profitable over the past decade, experiencing 12.7% higher growth in market capitalization growth than those ... Read More
